Potentially goal of the month.
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He's the closest thing to Robben / Nani you'll get in world football IMO with the type of shot, expect a few of them a season.
Get a brilliant RB who puts in a dangerous cross, and a world class striker up top and the right flank is just trouble.
They spent years under Ole who indulged them and allowed them to be lazy wankers. It’s why I’ve said the biggest damage Ole did to us was ruining our players.
Not really. If we want to blame it on managers, there are a few with Rashford. When Rashford broke out, it was LVG who said running was for animals. And, then Jose who just played a low block from the first minute to end coached him. Ole was not the only one to blame for this.
But then again, the likes of Lingard did not stop running under any of those managers.
They really sabotaged us.
You can't carry 2 players who proceed to put in a foot wrong in basically every single action they had. They were terrible.
I'd be very tempted to bin both in the summer if they don't step it up.
Looks like we’re not the only ones noticing that…
Ignore the tweet, mind. I think that’s more on Sancho and Rash than Antony who did a decent enough job going back.
Yeah, Antony was one of our most involved players. Certainly in the second half.
Even the way he presses is different. When he goes for it he runs at 100 miles an hour. Flat out. Bruno’s the same. Rashford just fecking lopes towards the defender.
I honestly think they'll be replaced soon. Once Martial is back in the team Rashford and Sancho will battle it out for the left wing. Then ideally in the winter, more likely summer we buy another 1 or 2 forwards with both quality and workrate and they both will get the maguire treatment.
Rashford I could see staying as a backup option due to his speed and I'm not sure if he has a desire to leave. Sancho on the other hand we won't even get half of his price back. I've not given up fully on Sancho just yet but mannnnn he is walking on thin ice.
I do have alight hope that what I've seen so far from Ten Hag is that he won't be afraid to drop both.
Really needs to cop his shit on, scored some lovely goals this season but hasn't really been at the races otherwise which is doubly disappointing because he had a pretty good preseason.
He's done pretty well considering it's a new league, he's young and the state of our team? Seems his colleagues need to cop their shit on far more
I don't think so, the first half in particular, they were killing us down our right hand side, partly because Dalot couldn't cope on his own. Antony does seem to have more grit than the other two in terms of workrate and he was decent in the 2nd half but he was culpable too.
Are you talking about Antony or Sancho?
It was actually Dalot that didn't back Antony up in trying to press from the front. And Dalot ended up causing himself and the midfield huge problems. Antony at one point advances forward to apply pressure/block the passing lane centrally and hence signals towards Dalot to engage the City attacker in the wide space but Dalot is nowhere to be found and City advance the play easily. That then results in the back-line dropping deeper and gaps opening up in the half spaces which City exploited because we lost our compactness.
Exactly. You can't both press from the front and track all of the way back to sit deep next to your fullback. At least not at the same time. It's one or the other. I think, and this has to be said yet again, that he was hurt because the rest of our forwards were doing a shit job pressing from the front, so it just caused disjointedness in our defensive structure and City is always going to expose that.
I love how he moves with the ball and protects it if only we had more players who can control and protect the ball like he does.
Bloody hell that is pathetic from the two of them. And yeah, folk are ripping into Ronaldo for not pressing but those two are just as bad. Fed up watching them do feck all against opposition who have the ball, and not only that when they do get it they can barely keep it. Not just on Sunday but this is killing us in general, where we can't build an attack because they cannot keep the ball.
We aren't gonna play City every week, and yes I know Rashford won POTM, but in the run up to the WC I want to see FAR more from both Sancho and Rashford.
Sunday v Everton my front three would be Rashford (edges it because of goals and assists this season) - Martial - Antony.
The funnier thing is the academy at Sao Paolo nearly let him go at 18 they didn't think he'd make it, his growth has been immense considering when he got taken up to play football
We probably overpaid a bit but I understand why ten hag did it, im happy about him for now, probably our best wide forward for the time being.
Early days for him, but I'm pleased to see him score in his first 2 premier league games (despite the unwelcome month break between the two!) Seeing as his G/A output at Ajax was constantly questioned by many.
I think it will always be difficult for the huge fee to be justified, but first impressions for me I really like his attitude and that he looks to have some backbone. Looking forward to seeing how his career continues at United, and suspect (/hope!) he could well become a big favourite.
I think it will always be difficult for the huge fee to be justified, but first impressions for me I really like his attitude and that he looks to have some backbone. Looking forward to seeing how his career continues at United, and suspect (/hope!) he could well become a big favourite.
Think Sancho played about 8 games under ole but go on
Antony has the highest ceiling on our team. A wonderfully balanced footballer with skills to match. Once Dalot learns to work with antony and make the overlapping runs he’ll be lethal.
People think we overpaid but what’s more important is that fee is cheap as far as team achievements are concerned. And let’s be honest not many top players were picking up while we were in the mud… it was important to pay what we needed to get Antony.
Since when was Sancho from our youth set up
His dribbling is odd, really good at the keep away dribbling, holding the ball and making people miss but when he has to take the initiative and go directly at defenders he is much less confident. Lots of good things anyway.
Thought he was pretty good, showed a bit more of his dribbling today.
Good and worked hard.
Needs to take on the full back more often.
I think he's going to be absolutely class. Love the explosiveness he has and how agile and talented he is. Has a hell of a shot on that left foot, isn't selfish and usually it's easier to teach a player to take shots rather than lift your head up when in a chance (which he tries to do, too much). He's going to be brilliant IMO.
His cutting from the left and curling the ball looks dangerous. He'll score a few more like that this season. Improving game by game. Also glad to see him being strong on the ball and hard to take it away from him. So far he seems a bit reluctant to go on the outside but I'm sure he's still being a tab bit conservative and with more game and confidence he'll start doing it.
Looks a decent player but not sure he has “it”
Has had a fairly decent start with us. Certainly has more confidence than Sancho and will look to beat his man.
I think he will do okay for us. Not sure he's 84m player though but that's not his fault.
I think he will do okay for us. Not sure he's 84m player though but that's not his fault.
You could see that he will score some absolute belters for us. Just needs to be more confident.
Thought he was one of the few players that played well in the first half. Looks tenacious and aggressive which i really like. That part in the first half where he kept on his feet and kept the ball despite being fouled about three times
Decent performance. Tenacious, but he has to do more. It’s just not enough.
If we can get the striker running to the right when he cuts in it'll give the option of a quick pass through the defensive line into the feet of the striker on the right side while the keeper is moving to the left to defend the shot. He'll also open up space around him in the future because either the midfielders will have to cover the inside bit to take away the cut in, or the fullbacks will have to, leaving space out wide.
I liked what I saw today. His shooting ability has looked more impressive than I thought it was in the last two games which is promising. Really unlucky with his effort tonight which needed a top save. He showed some really smart touches and quality dribbling ability today. He has the ball on a string at times. Obviously should have done better or been more selfish when messing up the Bruno pass.
I think he’s the best player of that profile that we could have signed this summer so a wise investment in my opinion. A quality addition to our attacking options.
I think he’s the best player of that profile that we could have signed this summer so a wise investment in my opinion. A quality addition to our attacking options.
Can we please stop with the he lacks pace argument? He clearly showed both solid top speed and great acceleration today.
He needs to run at his defenders more though - takes a little too long figuring out what to do at times.
He needs to run at his defenders more though - takes a little too long figuring out what to do at times.
He's going to be a star. Playing within himself so far, more than understandly, yet is gaining a little more swagger now. Plus, 2 goals already is exceeding expectations. Keep it up!
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